Distribution of Sarracenia Caiesbaei, Ell. 433 
northeast side of branches of the Dog River below Mobile, 
and it may possibly be from this locality that it was recorded 
by Jewett in 1838, and by Sullivant in May, 1845. The 
earliest specimens of which I have exact knowledge were 
collected by T. Drummond at New Orleans in 1832, and 
these constitute his No. 12, sent out under the name of S. 
flava, Mich. It is recorded from near Mississippi City, 
Miss., by W. M. Canby; from Biloxi and from Ocean 
Springs, Miss., by S. M. Tracy; from Hammond, La., it has 
been sent out by L. Gallup; from Texas specimens have been 
collected at Swan by Reverchon, and at Kountze by G. C. 
Nealley. A sheet of specimens, No. 284,926, of the United 
States National Herbarium has been collected by Prof. L. F. 
Ward near Florence, S. C. This locality is the nearest at 
present known to that from which Macbride secured his 
specimens “along the margins of the rivulets amidst the high 
sand hills in South Carolina.’”’ From information received 
from various correspondents it is specially abundant from 
Alabama westward to Eastern Texas, and is particularly 
so along the costal belt. Records seem to be wanting for it 
over Florida, Georgia and the greater part of South Carolina. 
The resemblance of rather small sized pitchers to those 
of S. rubra is striking, and this extends also in a minute 
degree to the microscopic structure which I hope to treat of 
elsewhere, while both differ in this respect from the other 
species of the genus. The flowers are highly diagnostic, 
for in the soft petaloid character of the sepals, and their 
resemblance in color to the pale lemon-yellow petals, they 
markedly differ from those of S. flava. 
As regards flowering periods, S. Catesbaet is the earliest 
species. The writer gathered material near Mobile in Feb- 
ruary which already showed flower buds about two inches in 
height. From records kindly supplied by Mr. H. G. Gayfer 
these blossomed in the second week of March, while flowered 
herbarium specimens from various other localities along the 
coast record dates from March roth to April 3d. The speci- 
